Gianni Castagnoli
La nott'e'l giorno
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Original format Super8
Year 1973-1976
Artist(s) Gianni Castagnoli
Booklet 52 pages (French, English, Italian)
Running time 132 min
Films
LA NOTT'E'L GIORNO (1973-1976) 45'
VALENTINO MOON (1974-1975) 9'
ROMA: LE STANZE (1975) 23'
MILANO: LE STANZE (1972-76) 29'
VIAGGI, PRIMA PARTE (1973-1975) 24'
Description
"Castagnoli comes 'after the underground' and one can say that he experiments as naturally as he breathes, since for him, 'the man with a movie camera' is neither exception nor metaphor. The most remarkable element of his films is, in fact, the sense of time and light, in other words, the sense of the body that with the camera transcribes, documents and lives its biological rhythms."
— Adriano Aprà
"The extreme close-up portraits that dot this kind of intimate diary, and which are among the most admirable - albeit the fastest - ever made in cinema, do not drift about like gratuitous bravura pieces, but are intimately justified, connected to the film's music by a hundred fluid threads."
— Dominique Noguez
"La nott'e'l giorno is the most meticulously and masterfully edited film in all of Italian cinema, in a lattice of connections between forms, lights, gestures, atmospheres and figurations of vibrations captured at different times and places."
— Alberto Farassino